Valentine

Elizabeth Wetmore

A girl walks to a farmhouse at dawn, and the women of an oil-boom town must decide what to say.

West Texas, 1976, oil boom country. After a fourteen-year-old girl is assaulted and walks to the nearest farmhouse at dawn, the women of Odessa are forced to decide what they will say. Wetmore writes a place where the money and the men are the same thing.

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